Junior Azure Dev Ops Engineer - Young Professional Program

Interested in a job in IT and contributing to a better world? Discover your best self with the Young Engineering Professional Program.

You and your future
During the Young Engineering Professional Program (also known as YEPP) at Rabobank you work on your career one day a week by following a technical track, or you work on your personal development. You develop talents you didn’t know you had and you are given the space to discover for yourself what you are good at and what you like. And then? Everything you learn in the training courses can immediately be put into practice, because the other 4 days you work in your starter position as DevOps Engineer.Under the guidance of experienced colleagues, you will become a specialist in your field in no time. In addition, in the program you will work together with the team on 2 business challenges on themes such as sustainable agriculture or the cooperative energy transition. 

As a DevOps Engineer – Azure Cloud within Customer Engagement you will be working within a squad that is responsible for the (Cloud) infrastructure of our customer communication platform Quadient Cloud and related applications. This platform currently supports the delivery of over 10 million PDFs and 20 million emails to our customers per month, but mostly within Rabobank’s own datacenter. We are currently making the move to the Cloud. Did you ever receive an email or letter from Rabobank? It was generated and sent through this platform.

Some technical details on that: The Quadient Inspire Flex platform is deployed as containers inside a Kubernetes cluster (AKS). CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) are used to automate the application deployment, maintenance and builds. We use Infrastructure as code (Terraform) for managing all the Cloud infrastructure. It’s a complex set-up that needs to be available 24/7, as it has the highest possible availability rating within the bank.

Examples

• Support the design, deployment, and management of Azure Cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Utilize Azure services such virtual machines, databases and Key Vaults to meet application and business requirements.
• Design, implement, and manage comprehensive networking solutions within Azure, including virtual networks, load balancers, and firewalls.
• Utilize Azure Security Centre and other Azure security tools for regular security assessments and audits, identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and best practices for data protection and privacy.
• Configure and manage Splunk for comprehensive log aggregation, monitoring, and troubleshooting of cloud infrastructure, applications, and security events.
• Develop and maintain automated deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps, integrating CI/CD practices to streamline application delivery.

Practical

• Length: Young Engineering Professional Program: 18 months
• After which you will continue to work with us as DevOps Engineer
• Hours per week: 40
• Location: We work in both Utrecht and Eindhoven

Your development

To become the specialist in your professional field, in the Young Engineering Professional Program 1 day a week you mainly attend training courses that that support your talent development. The courses are often given by experienced colleagues or trainers with a track record. You build your network, gain valuable experience and develop skills which will be of use to you later in your career.

Learning from each other
Development is our top priority. Because the best way to learn is by doing, through mistakes and successes. At Rabobank we offer you the right balance between freedom and supervision. To develop talents you never thought you possessed. To specialize in a professional field or explore the things you're good at and enjoy doing. During the Young Engineering Professional Program you can count on us for excellent supervision. You'll work with experienced colleagues and have lots of contact with young professionals.

Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

• a relevant bachelor or master degree, or an equivalent working / thinking level
• affinity with cloud development, and already some experience with at least one of Cloud technologies (preferably Azure), Container Orchestration (preferably Kubernetes), Infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform), or CI/CD concepts
• excellent proficiency in English
• feedback makes you stronger
• learns from mistakes
• adaptive to changing situations
• focus on the solution

This is what we offer you

• Most of all, we offer you an 18 month long rich learning experience, while you advance your career towards an expert in your field
• A gross monthly salary in function scale 7
• A combination of working from home and at the office
• A personal development budget of € 1,400-

This is a selection of the terms of employment for a DevOps Engineer based on a 40-hour working week.

You and the job application process

We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. What can you bring to Rabobank? We can't wait to hear from you.

So get in touch straightaway:

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Clemens Schinkel, Corporate Recruiter via Clemens.Schinkel@Rabobank.nl.
• Please add a motivational letter in your resume.
• A technical assessment and/or a personality assessment is part of the selection process.
• Interviews will be held via MS Teams or at our office in Utrecht.
• A security check is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.

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